As of 8:59 p.m. yesterday, Christie is “seriously rethinking his months of denials and may launch a campaign for the White House after all,” according to an anonymous source who spoke to the Newark Star-Ledger. It’s a serious turn of events: just six days ago, the Star-Ledger reported that Christie was only “rethinking his decision to stay out of the race.” Now he is doing so “seriously.”
Sarah Palin

Not only is there a Fox Business Network program called Freedom Watch, but there is a Fox Business Network program called Freedom Watch on which Sarah Palin appeared on Thursday for purposes of apologizing for botching a simple criticism of Herman Cain—an impossibly easy political maneuver that doesn’t require much more than a condescending smile and a pizza joke. Earlier this week, on Greta van Susteren’s Fox show, Palin said, “Take Herb Cain. Look at why he's doing so well right now. I guess you could say, with all due respect, he’s the flavor of the week.” She then called Herman Cain “Herb Cain” a second time. Yesterday, on the aforementioned episode of Freedom Watch, Palin blamed the media: “What the media tends to do is, kinda gin up controversy, and propel this flavor of the week, I’m not saying that Herman Cain is the flavor of the week,” she said, regarding her earlier comment in which she said that Herman Cain was—quoting verbatim here—“the flavor of the week.”

As for her 2012 plans, Palin told the Freedom Watch viewer(s) that she’s “engaged in serious deliberations” about this “serious decision.”

The news from the Hastert camp has been quiet—too quiet. There’s been nary a peep out of America’s 59th speaker of the house since 2007, suggesting that he is quietly fundraising and meeting with various motorcycle-dealership proprietors in New Hampshire and/or Iowa. But is Dennis Hastert too fat to run for president? (We honestly have forgotten what he looks like.) And a quick Google image search reveals … no, not too fat.